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Best screen recorders
Record your screen, with or without sound and webcam. Facts come from each tool's own pages, and every score says where it comes from. How we rank
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- 14
- Researched
- 12
- Free option
- 7
- Only listed
- 2
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Details and sources
- Free tier
- Free plan exports up to 1080p with no watermarks, with unlimited videos. Includes trim, crop, rotate, resize, subtitles, voiceovers, silence removal, free stock assets, and a screen recorder (no recording limits stated). Brand kit is not included.
- Paid plan
- Premium features (4K export, premium stock assets and effects, brand kit) come with Microsoft 365 Personal or Family. Prices and billing periods are Not stated on this page.
- Signup
- Free plan requires signing in with a personal Microsoft account.
- Watermark
- Free exports have no watermark, per the pricing page.
- Where files go
- Not stated.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Clipchamp pricing. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
- Free tier
- Anyone can share unlimited public videos on Vimeo for free. The page says: “Anyone can now share unlimited public videos on Vimeo for free.”
- Paid plan
- Vimeo offers paid plans, which can be viewed by selecting 'See plans'. The page says: “See our plans.”
- Signup
- Users can join for free, which implies a signup process. The page says: “Upgrade Join for free.”
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Vimeo provides a platform to upload, manage, and share videos. The page says: “Vimeo’s intuitive platform makes it easy to upload, manage, and share your videos with complete control over privacy and distribution.”
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-04. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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Details and sources
- Free tier
- Free plan: 5 recorded videos per month, up to 30 minutes per recording, 15 AI videos, 3 custom AI avatars. Video hosting not included. No credit card required.
- Paid plan
- Starter: price not shown on the page; billed monthly or annually (annual described as saving 30%), 14-day trial. Teams and Enterprise: custom pricing, invoiced.
- Signup
- Yes, the page says you must sign up for the Free plan.
- Watermark
- Not stated directly. The page says the Branded Sharing Page, which removes Vidyard branding, is not included on Free.
- Where files go
- Services are hosted in the United States; data may also be processed in Canada and other countries. No specific retention period stated. The policy says it does not cover customer-uploaded videos handled as data processor.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Pricing, Privacy policy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
- Free tier
- Free plan at $0/month: 2 hours of multi-track recording (listed as one-time), unlimited single-track recording and editing, editing tools, Magic Clips, video up to 720p, audio 44.1 kHz.
- Paid plan
- Pro $29/month (or $24/month billed $288 yearly), Grow $39/month (or $34/month billed $408 yearly), Webinar $99/month (annual figures on the page are inconsistent), Business custom via sales. Currency or country not stated.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Yes. The pricing page says the free plan has a Riverside watermark; Pro lists no watermark.
- Where files go
- Privacy policy says personal data may be stored and processed in the US, Canada, EU and other places. No retention period for recordings is stated. Voice and face data are kept only as long as needed for the requested feature. Recordings may be used to train its AI, except for business-plan customers who opted out.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Riverside pricing, Riverside privacy policy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
- Free tier
- The pricing page offers a Start for free button but does not list free plan limits.
- Paid plan
- Plan names and prices are not shown. Billing is monthly or yearly, priced per seat, shown in local currency when available, otherwise USD. Subtitle generation has a 50-hour monthly fair use limit.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Data is transferred to third parties outside the UK and EEA; no storage countries are named. Data is kept as long as reasonably necessary. Specific retention periods are available on request.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Pricing, Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
- Free tier
- OBS Studio is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. The page says: “Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.”
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- The privacy policy mentions processing name and third party login information to allow access to OBS Services. The page says: “We process your name and third party login information to allow you to access the OBS Services.”
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Not stated.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home, Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
Details and sources
- Free tier
- Not stated. The home page does not label the screen recorder as free or paid.
- Paid plan
- Not stated. No prices on the pages read (the /pricing page returned 404).
- Signup
- Not stated. The privacy page says some services, such as file sharing and software subscriptions, need a password-protected account.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- The privacy page says files uploaded through certain Apowersoft applications are stored on the company's cloud server, and data may sit on leased third-party servers. Individual uploaded files can be deleted from the My Account page. No fixed retention period is given.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Privacy policy, Terms, Home page. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
- Free tier
- Not stated.
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Videos can be hosted in the cloud. The page says: “Host videos in the cloud, embed them anywhere, and make videos searchable across your team.”
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-04. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
Details and sources
- Free tier
- VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player. The page says: “VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.”
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Not stated.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-04. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
Details and sources
- Free tier
- Not stated. The home page links to a Free vs Full version FAQ but its content was not read.
- Paid plan
- The home page shows a Buy Now price of $33.26 for 1 PC. A discounted Bandicam + Bandicut package is mentioned without a price.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- The privacy page says on-device AI features process selected material locally. Cloud or online features may upload audio, video, images and text to servers run by the company or outside providers (it lists Cloudflare, OpenAI, AWS, Google and others). Inputs and outputs are not used for AI training unless you opt in. No fixed retention period is given.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Privacy policy, Home page. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
- Free tier
- Not stated.
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- The privacy policy says data may be transferred, processed and stored outside your country. It does not mention uploaded video files or how long they are kept. Some personal data is kept for 7 years after it is no longer needed.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
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Also listed (2, not yet tested)
Each of these answered when we visited its site. We have not tested them or recorded facts, so they are in alphabetical order, not ranked.
- ScreenityOpen
Screenity is a privacy-friendly screen recorder and video editor, all in one. Record your screen, then make it clearer with scenes, zooms, and captions.
- StreamYardOpen
StreamYard is a professional live streaming and recording studio in your browser. Record your content, or stream live to Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms.
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